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What’s Good for Google…

April 14th, 2011

In spite of opposition from Expedia and other big online travel agencies, the Department of Justice announced that it would allow Google to acquire ITA, a company that makes software for travel search and reservations. The critical question (from our perspective, anyway) is whether the purchase …

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AT&T and T-Mobile to wed

March 21st, 2011

AT&T announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for a cool $39 billion. The next move is up to the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Communications Commission. If these authorities take a conventional, old-style approach to merger analysis, AT&T could face resistance. But if authorities focus on the critical …

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E-Book Wars

August 19th, 2010

If you’re hooked (like us) on Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, you’ve probably noticed that book prices have gone up a bit since Amazon caved into most publishers’ demands that the giant retailer work on commission – so called agency pricing – rather than setting its own prices. The publishers’ logic …

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Greasy Pole Economics

August 19th, 2010

Remember when Microsoft appeared to be on track to dominate our waking hours at work (Windows, Office) and at play (Xbox, Internet Explorer, MSN)? Seems like a quaint memory now — though, in the long-standing tradition of refighting the last war, as recently as December the European competition authority was …

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Google’s Turn

February 24th, 2010

It’s no surprise that Google is now under the competition authority’s microscope in Brussels. This, after all, is the company with a 90 percent share of the explosively growing Internet ad market in Europe. Indeed, back home, where it has “only” an 80 percent market share, the Justice …

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